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To: LFISKY who wrote (892)	4/26/1999 7:41:00 PM
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Clinton to propose mandatory gun locks tomorrow..... Monday April 26 6:21 PM ET Clinton Plans New Gun-Control Bill By SANDRA SOBIERAJ Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - One week after the Colorado shootings, President Clinton will propose legislation Tuesday that would require background checks on sales of explosives and hold parents liable when their children commit crimes with guns. Clinton is counting on outrage over the shootings to help push the bill through Congress. ''The prospects are good,'' White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said Monday. ''Unfortunately, oftentimes it takes tragic events to catalyze work here in Washington.'' The president planned a White House ceremony to announce his new omnibus anticrime package. It will contain the restriction on explosives sales as well as measures that died in the last Congress, according to sources familiar with the proposals, speaking only on condition of anonymity. White House officials were still working on the explosives provision, which would aim to treat their sale the same way gun sales are treated under the Brady law, congressional sources said. It was unclear how ''explosives'' would be defined. In Littleton, Colo., the killers had homemade hand grenades and pipe bombs as well as guns. In Oklahoma City, two tons of explosive fertilizer were used to blow up the federal building. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., applauded Clinton's initiative at cracking down on explosives but wondered if it was a problem too loosely defined to tackle. ''If you're talking about propane gas tanks and agricultural chemicals, I'm anxious to see how they define the component parts of this,'' Durbin said. Clinton is proposing: - Mandatory child-safety locks on all guns sold. - All gun-show sales be subject to background checks on buyers. - A lifetime ban on gun ownership for people who commit violent crimes as juveniles. - A three-day waiting period for all handgun purchases. Up to last year, the Brady Act provided five days for police to conduct background checks on buyers if they needed that much time. Now, it provides up to three days, but most checks are instantaneous. There never has been a minimum, mandatory waiting period. - Criminal liability and a $10,000 fine for adults, including parents, who allow children access to guns. The adult could be held liable whenever a juvenile crime is committed and ''there's some reason to think the parents or gun owner should have known'' that the juvenile had access to a firearm, said White House spokesman Barry Toiv. Clinton raised this provision long before the Colorado shootings and is not meant to suggest that those parents should be blamed, said Toiv. Lockhart, announcing the general proposal though not the details on Monday, criticized the National Rifle Association for fighting Clinton on gun control. ''I think there is a consensus in this country that we need to do more; the president will propose to do more and it is time for the NRA to get out of the past and get on the right side of this issue,'' Lockhart said. NRA spokesman Jim Manown replied: ''It's inappropriate for us to engage in a political debate at this moment.'' He said NRA officials would address the issue at their trimmed-down annual conference in Denver this weekend. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------